On 26 March 2025, MRN staff and participants in the AI under Watch project presented our findings in the Public Voices In AI Event at the Houses of Parliament. In August 2024, we received funding from the Public Voices in AI Fund to investigate the potential role and impact of AI on people seeking asylum […]
We have recently contributed to the National Audit Office’s audit of the Skilled Worker Visa Route, sending a response to their call-out for contributions. Find the audit here.
We are really excited to welcome our new Community Organisers! Our Words Matter Community Organisers training with Common Languages (11-13 March 2025) was filled with amazing conversations and meaningful reflection on power, language, narrative change, and justice. We had sessions on Words Matter, Language Justice, Collective Care, a zine making workshop, as well as more
sign up to our newsletter Dear supporters, Dear supporters, We’re taking a stand against the new Border Security Bill. This new legislation builds on the legacy of cruel immigration laws and aims to turn migration into national security issue. Join us by saying NO to the Bill and ask your MP to vote against it.
This International Women’s Day, we reaffirm our commitment to standing in solidarity with all marginalised women: Global South, racialised, migrant, working class, queer and trans women. We recognise the history of International Women’s Day as a championing of working class, socialist women’s movements in defiance of imperialism, colonialism and capitalism. And we recognise the dangers
Co-authored with the National Survivor User Network (NSUN) DOWNLOAD THE ZINE DOWNLOAD A PLAIN TEXT VERSION OF THE ZINE Summary Trauma, disability justice, and migrant justice Dialogue around trauma as part of disability justice, and also migrant justice, remains largely absent. The creation or exacerbation of mental ill-health, distress and trauma is often caused by
The Border Security Bill is making its way through Parliament. There’s been a lot of misunderstanding around what this Bill actually represents, and so we are here to clear things up for you. Yes, the Bill restarts deportation agreements and reduces routes to claim asylum, and this is horrible enough, but this is not just
Date: 18 March 2025 Time: 4.00 – 7.45pm Venue: Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E1 5QJ With the ever increasing use of AI in UK infrastructure, we have already witnessed AI being gradually implemented into the UK immigration and asylum system for some time. Through our new AI Under Watch resource, we have
sign up to our newsletter Dear supporters, Just like clockwork, the Government is back with another migration Bill- the Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill. Alarmingly, this Bill marks the first time a counter-terror framework has been used as the primary approach to migration policy. We’ve wasted no time in denouncing this Bill for what
The good character requirement has been updated on 10th February 2025 to block some refugees from naturalising as British citizens if their entry to the UK was criminalised, i.e. they did not arrive with the required immigration documentation, such as a visa or electronic travel authorisation (ETA). This specifically applies to people who traveled to
